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My Hellsten – Fjällkor
A few years ago I fell deeply in love with the white mountain cows of Tännäs, the village of my grandparents. This is a small village in the province of Härjedalen, in the north of Sweden. During the summer and the early autumn months, the cows and their calves move around on a fairly large area with meadows and a forest. I became curious and fascinated by them and I soon felt an urge to investigate what they where doing, for example in the middle of the night in the forest. Since that first summer I am following them with my camera during days as well as nights, from early summer until the first snow falls, usually in October.
After having spent so much time with the cows they have gotten used to have me around and I have come to know them as individuals and discovered how different they are from each other in terms of character and temperament.
The project is ongoing and I am looking forward to continue photographing them.
Bio
My Hellsten was born in 1976 and lives in Stockholm, Sweden. She graduated with a BA in Graphic Design and Illustration from Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in 2003 and she received her MFA from the same university 2005. During 2002 she studied one semester at California College of Arts, San Francisco, USA, as an exchange student. Since graduation she has been working both with graphic design and photography.
Her work has been exhibited in Sweden and internationally. In 2007 she was selected for Peek 2007, Festival of emerging photographers, by Art+Commerce, New York, and a selection of the photographs was presented in Capricious Magazine #7 edited by Art+Commerce. In 2008 she exhibited at the Backlight International Photographic Triennial, Tampere, Finland, and in 2009 at Fotofestiwal, International Festival of Photography in Lodz, Poland. In 2009 she was nominated for the Leopold Godowsky, Jr. Color Photography Award, and in July 2009 her work will be shown at the Voies Off Festival in Arles, France.
Photographs: My Hellsten
Website: http://myhellsten.se
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Many thanks… david alan harvey
My,
You really talk with cows. :)))
I love that.
It makes me smiling.
Thank you for nice works.
Thanks David for your understanding…
I appology because I am not used to speak like that (to people I don’t know!), and even most of time, I don’t agree with Bob words, I post this like a teenager’ reaction…! I really respect him and my comment was not showing this at all! I don’t know him personnaly but some friends of mine get a lot of help from him, and clear words and from that point my reaction was stupid regarding my personnal condition…hot weather, projects in stand by because of a stupid fall…
that’s all…his silence and your common sense show me that if I am not as young as I would (f*cking bones!) and my experience is still short… I am in-between…
thanks again for your words..
My, I really liked your photos. I think #15 is excellent! Sci fi cows!!! Thanks for sharing your work.
This is a wonderful essay and it gave me a lot to think about – in terms of photography, not about white cows per se.